![]() ![]() There were a lot of people backstage but I could see her hair coming down the hallway above everyone. ![]() As I hadn’t heard back, I sent a copy of the song to her manager, Roger Davies, who asked if I would meet Tina after her show - which I did, and it was spectacularly Tina. Turner passed away on Wednesday at the age of 83. He added: “Toward the end of making my album, I heard that Tina was coming to Vancouver as the support act for Lionel Richie. Canadian musician Bryan Adams reflects on his unique friendship and partnership with Tina Turner. “Tina was making the album Private Dancer, and her producer Carter called me up and asked me to write a song for her, but I was making the Reckless album at the time and didn’t have a spare song … or did I? I asked him if she’d sing on my album and hoped to hear back,” he said.” Right there, on the spot, she came up with a completely different approach to the melody.The song eventually culminated in a number of musical projects.įor the December 2018/January 2019 issue of Zoomer, Suzanne Boyd interviewed Adams about his decades-long friendship and collaboration with Turner. She paused for a minute, then she said, "Let me try something a little different". There was a moment during the recording session when I didn't think her vocal was going to work (we wrote the song for Bryan's vocal range, and it was the wrong key for Tina). She has the energy of a hurricane, yet she's focused and professional. We’ve lost a powerhouse of a woman: Bryan Adams, a friend and collaborator of Tina Turner’s, remembers the icon as a legendary singer and performer and recalls how it felt to sing at her and Erwin Bach’s wedding. It was also a real treat watching Tina sing in the studio. To her credit, she honoured all of the small engagements before turning her full attention to the "big time". As everyone now knows, the album was an enormous success - in fact, success came so quickly that Tina found herself caught between two very different worlds: "top dollar" requests were arriving daily for stadium concerts in support of her hit single "What's Love Got To Do With It", while at the same time she had agree to perform at a McDonald's Restaurant Manager's convention, booked several months before. Singer Bryan Adams posted a picture online of him and Turner, writing in the captions: I’ll be forever grateful for bringing me on tour with you. Roger took Tina under his wing and helped her record the "Private Dancer" album. and she was amazing!!Īround the same time as the Tom Jones appearance Tina met a young Australian manager, Roger Davies. When I was playing drums for Tom Jones in 1980, Tina appeared on Tom's television show as a guest. She was half-a-million dollars in debt, and at one point she had to resort to food stamps to feed her family! Her single "What's Love Got To Do With It" had just started taking off at radio, and she was finally emerging from years of obscurity! If Bryan had approached her even a few weeks later, chances are Tina would have been too busy to participate.Īfter splitting with her husband (and band-leader) Ike Turner in 1976, Tina spent several years playing night-clubs, corporate conventions, and whatever other work she could find to support her four children. "It's Only Love" would have been a solo Bryan Adams performance were it not for Bryan's persistence in pursuing Tina Turner.
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